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A few thoughts fluttered through the mind of Natalie Neuert when she heard about the controversy involving Mike Daisey and his monologue “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” For a brief time, the director of the University of Vermont’s Lane Series thought any publicity is good publicity, especially considering that Daisey would be bringing his show to Burlington this Saturday for a performance presented by the Lane Series and the Flynn Center.

Her primary reaction, she said Wednesday, was that she needed to gather as much information as possible about what was true and what wasn’t in Daisey’s monologue about Apple and the technology giant’s manufacturing practices in China. The public-radio show “This American Life” and its host, Ira Glass, called into question some of the facts Daisey cited in his monologue. The program highlighted “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” in January but retracted the show this month after Daisey admitted he did not witness all the scenes he mentions in his performance.

Neuert is married to a journalist, Vermont Medicine magazine editor Ed Neuert. She said her husband found Daisey’s fudging of the facts in his monologue and related lies to the radio program “appalling.” Natalie Neuert, who helped bring Daisey to Burlington four years ago for a presentation of his monologue “Great Men of Genius: Nikola Tesla,” knew as someone who books theatrical performances that it was a complicated issue.

The Lane Series, promoting Daisey’s appearance in its annual brochure printed last summer, cited a critique of Daisey by The New York Times that referred to his preoccupation with “the fuzzy line where truth and fiction blur.” That style, more theatrical than journalistic, perhaps should not have caught the host of “This American Life” off-guard, as Neuert said a Lane Series patron suggested in an email: “Which part of ‘masterful storyteller’ did Ira Glass not understand?”

The discussion about where journalism ends and theater begins has kept the Daisey controversy in the national conversation since it broke in mid-March, and Neuert is intrigued by where people come down on either side of the issue. “It says a lot about human nature,” she said.

Daisey is making a few changes in “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” for future performances, to take out some of the contested elements “This American Life” helped to reveal. The slightly revamped version of the monologue debuts Saturday in Burlington, in a performance scheduled months before the firestorm over Daisey’s piece erupted.

Neuert said one thought in particular never crossed her mind after learning of the mess involving “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs:” “I definitely did not have the reaction, ‘Oh, my God, we need to shut this down,’” she said, despite suggestions to do so from some Lane Series supporters. Several ticket holders asked for refunds — 54, according to the Flynn Center, which is hosting the performance — while more than 500 tickets have been sold to the 1,453-seat theater.

Neuert said the question-and-answer session after the performance should address the dispute over the legitimacy of the content of the show as much as it gets into the issues of labor rights in China and American obsession with technology.

“I’m hoping that people will check their anger at the door and try to engage in a way that’s useful,” she said.

Daisey, in an interview last week with the Burlington Free Press, talked about how Saturday’s performance in Burlington is the beginning of his next step away from the “This American Life” controversy.

“It could be a hurdle to climb,” he said of the controversy. “It could also be an opportunity. I’ve been a storyteller and a monologist for a long time and I know a lot about what I’m doing. This is strange territory, and sometimes you learn a lot about yourself in strange territory, and so I’m actually really excited to do my best to tell a story that people can hear in an open and honest way.”

Neuert called Daisey a “brilliant” artist who should be heard. “He’s unbelievably funny in a very sophisticated kind of way, and he’s a brilliant wordsmith,” she said. He has a “vulnerable energy,” according to Neuert, that makes his stories personal even as they explore greater issues surrounding the nature of America and Americans.